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From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first.

Bertolt Brecht

You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
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Defend Truth Weak
People are too durable, that’s their main trouble. They can do too much to themselves, they last too long.
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Long People Silly
Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands.
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Art Embrace Hands War
Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.
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Impact Lying Mistakes
Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.
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Important Sometimes Taste
It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.
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Banker Clerk Fog
What a miserable thing life is: you’re in clover; only the clover isn’t good enough.
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Gratitude Life Sadness
Temptation to behave is terrible.
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Literature Temptation Terrible
In the contradiction lies the hope.
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Contradiction Hope Lying
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture ’tis to flee it.
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Good Knows Rapture Things
Would it not be simpler If the Government dissolved the people and elected another?
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Another Government People
From the start it has been the theatre’s business to entertain people … it needs no other passport than fun.
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Fun People Theatre
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
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Deserve Innocent Shots
Today every invention is received with a cry of triumph which soon turns into a cry of fear.
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Fear Today Triumph
If you join the rat race — you’re in the race of rats.
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Join Race Rat
Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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Mistake Wine Wisdom

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